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The Opposite Sexes: A Study of Woman's Natural and Cultural History
ISBN: 9781138638792 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in English in 1927, this study discusses the physical differences between men and women and how this affected the views of men and women of society. With all known information at the time, the author also details perceived mental differences between the sexes and finishes with a brief cultural history of women s place in society. This title will be of interest to students of Gender Studies and History."
Originally published in English in 1927, this study discusses the physical differences between men and women and how this affected the views of men... |
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741,23 |
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Stepping Lively in Place: The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi
ISBN: 9780820345499 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how free, single women navigated life in a busy slave-based river-port town before and during the Civil War, and how these women transitioned during Reconstruction, emancipation, and thereafter. It examines how free, single women in one city (including prostitutes, entrepreneurs, and elite plantation ladies) coped with life unencumbered, or unprotected, by husbands. The book pays close attention to the laws affecting southern gender and... Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how... |
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646,43 |
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Stepping Lively in Place: The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi
ISBN: 9780820349725 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how free, single women navigated life in a busy slave-based river-port town before and during the Civil War, and how these women transitioned during Reconstruction, emancipation, and thereafter. It examines how free, single women in one city (including prostitutes, entrepreneurs, and elite plantation ladies) coped with life unencumbered, or unprotected, by husbands. The book pays close attention to the laws affecting southern gender and... Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how... |
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193,76 |
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La Signora in Blu
ISBN: 9781517413002 / Włoski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La storia di Sorella Maria di Agreda e gli indiani Jumano ...Tula stava giocando con sua bambola quando si senti improvvisamente uno scoppio caldo all'interno. Gesu, in occasione, aveva detto che quando guardiamo il mondo attraverso gli occhi diun bambino possiamo vedere il Regno dei cieli. Tula percepito che l'amore era accanto a lei. Quindi si sentiva l'amore della Vergine Maria e amore di Dio. Guardo verso il picacho rocciosodove all'inizio del giorno aveva imparato il significato delle pitture rupestri, grazie a sua madre. Tula, il piccolo Jumana di puro spirito, fu il primo che ha visto...
La storia di Sorella Maria di Agreda e gli indiani Jumano ...Tula stava giocando con sua bambola quando si senti improvvisamente uno scoppio caldo all...
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53,84 |
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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
ISBN: 9781608466177 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justiceon their own behalf.
Undivided Rights presents a textured understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing the experiences, priorities, and activism of women of color in the foreground. Using historical research, original organizational case studies, and personal interviews, the authors illuminate how women of color have led the fight to control their own bodies and reproductive destinies. Undivided Rights shows how women of... Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justiceon their own b...
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90,80 |
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Westward the Women
ISBN: 9781943328086 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure pioneering across the continent. Not only does the material represent half-forgotten history which the author garnered from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the reminiscences of Far Western Old-timers but it is unique in presenting the woman s side of the story in this major American experience. With dramatic clarity the author of FARTHEST REACH has written the intimate and human stories of certain outstanding personalities among these...
WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure pioneer...
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74,97 |
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Darlene's Silver Streak and The Bradford Model T Girls
ISBN: 9780692491201 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill and Daisy Dorgan ran the popular Dorgan's Cafe on Main Street in Bradford, Illinois, for almost 50 years. Legend has it that Bill bought a six-year-old 1926 Ford Model T for his daughter Darlene, who immediately organized a summer vacation, inviting several girlfriends to join her camping in Devil's Lake, Wisconsin. Seven more summer trips, from 1936 through 1942, took these "twenty-something" girls through 44 states, Canada, and Mexico in an era when such travel by a group of coeds was not common. These gals seemed to find adventure at every turn, attending World's Fairs in New York and...
Bill and Daisy Dorgan ran the popular Dorgan's Cafe on Main Street in Bradford, Illinois, for almost 50 years. Legend has it that Bill bought a six-ye...
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90,99 |
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New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home: More Durable Than Marble
ISBN: 9780807163221 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A two-hundred-year-old institution, the Poydras Home -- originally the Poydras Asylum -- stands as an exemplar of woman-led charitable organizations. In a thorough and engaging narrative, Pamela Tyler offers the first complete history of this remarkable New Orleans establishment from its founding as an orphanage for young girls to its present-day operation as a retirement community and assisted-living facility. Throughout, Tyler paints a vivid picture of the many women who faced down the challenges of war, disease, natural disaster, social unrest, and restrictive gender ideals to realize... A two-hundred-year-old institution, the Poydras Home -- originally the Poydras Asylum -- stands as an exemplar of woman-led charitable organization... |
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198,98 |
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On Gender, Labor, and Inequality
ISBN: 9780252040320 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman's introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women's...
Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On G...
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534,45 |
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On Gender, Labor, and Inequality
ISBN: 9780252081774 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman's introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women's...
Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On G...
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112,18 |
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Mrs Luther and Her Sisters: Women in the Reformation
ISBN: 9780745956350 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women have made crucial contributions to the life of the Church from New Testament times onwards, but the Reformation saw an explosion in their involvement. Having benefited alongside their brothers from the Renaissance's emphasis on learning, and with the increasing casting aside of the belief that they were intellectually inferior, women learned to read in ever increasing numbers and most of them wanted to read the Bible. As a result, many started to interpret Scripture for themselves, putting them on a collision course with the Church."
Women have made crucial contributions to the life of the Church from New Testament times onwards, but the Reformation saw an explosion in their involv...
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106,84 |
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Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches
ISBN: 9780814771815 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have always been mail-order brides in America--but we haven't always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called -Tobacco Wives- of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today's modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It's a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It's also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering opportunities. Drawing on a forgotten trove of colorful mail-order marriage court...
There have always been mail-order brides in America--but we haven't always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. ...
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171,02 |
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Twelve Days of Christmas: Twelve Days of Chistmas
ISBN: 9781517619824 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men think about themselves, women worry about everyone else. Boxing Day 2004 two businesswomen survive the tsunami that kills three times more women than men. Lola and Shey are stripped of the possessions, place and people that define them. They face a refugee camp where men outnumber women five to one. Men are freed of family responsibility. A lack of privacy and tropical heat fuels sexual tensions. Men assert themselves by the domination of women. Twelve days after Christmas the UN announce better protection for women is needed. This is too late for Shey and Lola. "Twelve Days of Christmas"...
Men think about themselves, women worry about everyone else. Boxing Day 2004 two businesswomen survive the tsunami that kills three times more women t...
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49,75 |
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Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
ISBN: 9781784784294 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A founding text of transnational feminism
For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women s movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey, Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality. Journalist and human rights activist Rafia Zakaria s... A founding text of transnational feminism
For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential ... |
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85,46 |
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Women in Transnational History: Connecting the Local and the Global
ISBN: 9781138905764 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities. The book is divided into three thematically-organised parts, covering gendered histories of transnational networks, women s agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms, and the concept of localizing the global and globalizing the local. Discussing... Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women s history, exploring how cross-border connections and glo... |
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873,24 |
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Sargent's Lady
ISBN: 9780996843720 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Wells discovers an old portrait in a Washington, D.C. antique store that he believes has not only been painted by John Singer Sargent, but the Victorian lady's delicate features so intrigue him that he offers to buy it. The antique dealer refuses to sell the painting until it's authenticated. Thus, Peter begins a quest to learn more about this breathtaking beauty. Is this the face of someone he recognizes? SARGENT'S LADY is a story of love, sacrifice, and survival from the late 1800's - 1950's throughout the United States and Europe. After a clandestine love affair in Paris, Maud...
Peter Wells discovers an old portrait in a Washington, D.C. antique store that he believes has not only been painted by John Singer Sargent, but the V...
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62,14 |
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Westward the Women
ISBN: 9781943328345 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure pioneering across the continent. Not only does the material represent half-forgotten history which the author garnered from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the reminiscences of Far Western Old-timers but it is unique in presenting the woman s side of the story in this major American experience. With dramatic clarity the author of FARTHEST REACH has written the intimate and human stories of certain outstanding personalities among these...
WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure pioneer...
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138,14 |
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The Laws of Gartsherrie
ISBN: 9780993446801 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in the first quarter of the twentieth century THE LAWS of GARTSHERRIE follows the lives of two families, living and working in the Iron and Steel community of Gartsherrie, Coatbridge, Scotland. The plot is set against the background of the Suffragette movement and the World War.
Set in the first quarter of the twentieth century THE LAWS of GARTSHERRIE follows the lives of two families, living and working in the Iron and Steel ...
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61,97 |
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Women in Twentieth-Century Africa
ISBN: 9780521517072 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures. The book also explores the apparent paradox in the conflicting images of African women - as singularly oppressed and dominated by men, but also as...
During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a si...
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506,54 |
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Women in Twentieth-Century Africa
ISBN: 9780521741217 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures. The book also explores the apparent paradox in the conflicting images of African women - as singularly oppressed and dominated by men, but also as...
During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a si...
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126,56 |
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